PUBLISHER: Mordor Intelligence | PRODUCT CODE: 1851787
PUBLISHER: Mordor Intelligence | PRODUCT CODE: 1851787
The Pharmaceutical contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) market size is valued at USD 258.88 billion in 2025 and is projected to reach USD 353.20 billion by 2030, reflecting a 6.41% CAGR.

Robust outsourcing demand for complex biologics, the rise of high-potency APIs (HPAPIs), and artificial-intelligence-enabled-enabled process-development platforms underpin this trajectory. Peptide-based GLP-1 therapies, expanding vaccine programs, and sustained investment in digitally connected plants further amplify the need for specialist partners able to absorb capital and regulatory risks. North American innovators continue to anchor high-value biologics and gene-therapy work, while Asia-Pacific cost advantages accelerate capacity expansion. Consolidation-typified by Novo Holdings' USD 16.5 billion purchase of Catalent-signals a decisive shift toward end-to-end providers that combine development, scale-up, and commercial production.
Escalating R&D costs and pipeline complexity drive pharmaceutical majors to off-load non-core manufacturing. Asset-light models free capital for discovery while leveraging CDMO expertise to maintain global supply continuity. Lonza's USD 1.2 billion Vacaville site purchase from Roche underpins this transition, adding 330,000 L of biologics capacity to support blockbuster antibody demand. Outsourcing is most intense for sterile biologics and gene-editing therapies, where regulatory rigor and technical barriers heighten the value of specialist partners.
Biological entities now dominate new-drug filings, propelled by antibody-drug conjugates, mRNA vaccines, and cell-based therapeutics. Samsung Biologics secured USD 1.4 billion in new 2024 contracts and is expanding antibody-drug-conjugate suites, illustrating spiraling demand for cGMP biologics supply . Biologics' stringent cold-chain, contamination-control, and analytics requirements solidify a preference for full-scope CDMOs with proven regulatory track records.
Divergent dossiers and rolling updates such as the European Medicines Agency's new fee rules raise compliance budgets and prolong variation lead times EMA. CDMOs must operate duplicate quality-management systems and align data-integrity protocols across FDA, EMA, and PMDA audits, challenging smaller entrants.
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